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case was contracted at Greenhithe; the fourth at Ostend,
also fatal; the fifth from Eagle Chambers, Kingston,
admitted to the Cottage Hospital; the sixth, a young man
from Chelsea Villas was sent to the Isolation Hospital and
recovered ; an examination of the premises was made, but
no circumstance was discovered to account for the disease
and it was probable that the illness was contracted through
some agency—food or drink—elsewhere; the seventh case was
admitted to the Cottage Hospital from Mill Street, Kingston,
having formerly been in service at Surbiton, but no defect
was found in the sanitary arrangements of the house where
the patient had been residing ; the eighth, was a page boy
in a villa residence, enquiries were carefully made, but
nothing was discoverable as a cause and there was no
antecedent illness in the house; the ninth, was a gentleman
of middle age, living in apartments and going to London
daily, he was removed to the Isolation Hospital and
ultimately got well, nothing was wrong in the house
sanitation, but the cistern for domestic use was in a
cupboard opening into the patient's bedroom, a most
objectionable plan; there were grounds for suspecting that
this illness was caught in London; the tenth case was that
of a footman employed in a house near Hyde Park, he was
taken ill there and sent home, and on arrival, was found
to have typhoid; the eleventh, was a boy of eight, son of
a caretaker, living in an empty house, the drains were
possibly not very thoroughly flushed, but beyond that fact
no material sanitary defects were found; the twelfth
and last was a gentleman engaged in business in London.
The medical attendant informs me that in all probability
he was the victim of oysters, his companions on a certain
occasion being also subsequently laid up with the same
illness. The other two deaths took place in the Isolation
Hospital and were remanets from the year before, being
cases that were admitted in 1893, and were mentioned
in the report for that year, one died on January 1st,
and the other on the 5th. Of these twelve cases therefore
it appears that three were admitted from Kingston